Abū al-Ḥasan Alī ibn al-Abbās ibn Jūrayj (Template:Lang-ar), also known as Ibn al-Rūmī[3] (born Baghdad in 836; died 896), was the grandson of George the Greek (Jūraij or Jūrjis i.e. Georgius) and a popular poet of Baghdād in the Abbāsid-era.[4] By the age of twenty he earned a living from his poetry. His many political patrons included the Tahirid ruler Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir, Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tamid's minister the Persian Isma'il ibn Bulbul, and the politically influential Nestorian family Banū Wahb. He was a Shiite with Mutazilite leanings. He died of illness at the age of 59. His early biographer Ibn Khallikān relates an account that he was given poisoned biscuits in the presence of the caliph Al-Mu'tadid on the orders of his vizier, Al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah, whom Ibn al-Rumī had satirised viciously.[5] In another account his death is attributed to suicide. In the tenth-century his Dīwān (collected poetry), that had been transmitted orally by al-Mutanabbī, was arranged and edited by Abū Bakr ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī, and included in the section of his book Kitāb Al-Awrāq (كتاب الاوراق) on muḥadathūn (modern poets).[6][7][8][9][10]
Ibn al-Rūmī (ابن الرومى) | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 June 836 [1] |
| Died | 13 July 896 (aged 60) [2] |
| Era | Medieval era (Islamic Golden Age) |
| Region | Iraq, Arab world, Muslim world |
Main interests | Arabic poetry |
References
- ^ Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol 1, p. 536. Edition I. 1964
- ^ Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol 1, p. 536. Edition I. 1964
- ^ Khallikān 1843, p. 297, II.
- ^ Nadīm (al-) 1970, p. 1085.
- ^ Khallikān (Ibn) 1843, p. 299, II.
- ^ Ṣūlī (al-) 1934.
- ^ Nadīm (al-) 1970, p. 331.
- ^ Ṣūlī (al-), Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā (1934). Heyworth-Dunne, J (ed.). Kitāb al-Awrāķ (Section on Contemporary Poets) (in Arabic). London: Luzac.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Nadīm (al), Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq (1970). Dodge, Bayard (ed.). The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. New York & London: Columbia University Press.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Nadīm (al-), Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq (1872). Flügel, Gustav (ed.). Kitāb al-Fihrist (in Arabic). Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel. p. 572 (150).
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Bibliography
- Khallikān (Ibn), Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (1843). Wafayāt al-A’yān wa-Anbā’ Abnā’ al-Zamān (The Obituaries of Eminent Men}. Vol. II. Translated by McGuckin de Slane, William. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. pp. 297–301.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Nadīm (al), Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq (1970). Dodge, Bayard (ed.). The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. New York & London: Columbia University Press. pp. 283, 325, 331, 366, 374, 1085.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Nadīm (al-), Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq (1872). Flügel, Gustav (ed.). Kitāb al-Fihrist (in Arabic). Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel. p. 570 (150).
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Gruendler, Beatrice (2003). Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry: Ibn Al-Rūmī and the Patron's Redemption. Routledge. ISBN 0-7007-1490-1.
- El-Huni, Ali A., 'The poetry of Ibn al-Rùmī' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Glasgow, 1996)